Tag Archive: Self-Defense

on June 18, 2015 in World News

Obama Politicizes Charleston Shooting: Calls for Gun Control, Slams America

Obama Politicizes Charleston Shooting: Calls for Gun Control, Slams America President Barack Obama reacted to Wednesday’s horrific massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina by calling for gun control and criticizing the United States for the frequency of mass shooting events. “We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said, adding: “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

Russian Non-Invasion Causing Concern in European Capitals

Russian Non-Invasion Causing Concern in European Capitals There’s just no pleasing some people by Rob Slane This article originally appeared at TheBlogMire Tensions across the Baltic States and Poland have reached fever pitch in recent days as it has become increasingly clear that the Russians have no plans whatsoever to attack any of these countries. For the last year, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have been giving increasingly urgent warnings of Russian invasion and have been attempting to convince the rest of the world that it must act decisively in order to stop President Vladimir Putin carrying out his plan… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened

Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened by Rick Noack The increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Russia might be about to face a new challenge: a Russian investigation into American moon landings. In an op-ed published by Russian newspaper Izvestia, Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the government’s official Investigative Committee, argued that such an investigation could reveal new insights into the historical space journeys. According to a translation by the Moscow Times, Markin would support an inquiry into the disappearance of original footage from the first moon landing in 1969 and the whereabouts of lunar… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

CETA, the corporate lobby and the new transatlantic economy

CETA, the corporate lobby and the new transatlantic economy Source: Mitchell Thompson The Council of Canadians says corporations have direct influence over the terms of the Canada-EU trade deal and have used it to introduce policies that favour them over the public. Sujata Dey, Trade Campaigner for the Council of Canadians says, “The push for multilateral trade deals is (though they say it’s for lower tariffs and more economic opportunity) usually because business interests are pushing the deals. There’s a huge amount of lobbying going on.” Dey says that not only are businesses pushing for free trade policies, but are… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

Merkel: Force Through TTIP by Year End

Merkel: Force Through TTIP by Year End by Breitbart London German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Berlin was still aiming to reach a political framework for a comprehensive trade deal between the European Union and the United States by the end of this year. In a speech to parliament, Merkel said that Germany would reap enormous economic benefits from the so-called Transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP). Merkel added that an EU summit next week would not tackle Britain’s wishes for EU reform, but she would ask European Council President Donald Tusk to examine the issue. Her intervention… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Prevalent in Areas with High Asian Populations

New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Prevalent in Areas with High Asian Populations by Donna Rachel Edmunds The majority of child sexual abuse cases are taking place in areas with significant Asian populations, a new report has found. Figures revealed by Freedom of Information requests lodged with every police force in England show that London, Manchester and West Yorkshire have the highest rates of incidents. Another study claimed that White and Asian people took the number one and two slots amongst perpetrators. The National Society for the Prevention of Child Cruelty (NSPCC) lodged the FOI requests as part of it’s fact… View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

Charleston Church Shooting Suspect ID’d as Dylann Storm Roof

In Custody: Charleston Church Shooting Suspect ID’d as Dylann Storm Roof by John Nolte **UPDATE: In his early afternoon statement, it took President Obama exactly 4 minutes to politicize this massacre into a partisan call for gun control. Gun control fanatics create gun-free zones. Mass-murderers target gun-free zones. Gun control fanatics call for more gun-free zones. ***UPDATE: There are now unconfirmed reports that Roof has been apprehended by police in Shelby, North Carolina. CNN is confirming Roof was caught. Charlotte North Carolina will hold a briefing “soon.” — According to WBTV: Law enforcement is pursuing 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, of Eastover…. View Article

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on June 18, 2015 in World News

House Approves Obamatrade’s TPA, Bill Must Go to Senate Next

House Approves Obamatrade’s TPA, Bill Must Go to Senate Next by Rich Tucker Obamatrade is alive. One week after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected Obamatrade by voting against a key provision of it — Trade Adjustment Assistance — GOP establishment lawmakers resuscitated Trade Promotion Authority and rammed it through Thursday afternoon. The House action is unusual. As Breitbart News reported: “To engage in the complicated procedural chicanery needed to revive the once-dead Obamatrade, bringing its Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) portion back to life, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) needed to gut a previous bill that has passed the House and… View Article

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on June 17, 2015 in World News

House GOP poised to pursue fast-track without aid for workers

House GOP poised to pursue fast-track without aid for workers Dropping Trade Adjustment Assistance risks losing Democratic support for the larger trade deal. By Jake Sherman and Manu Raju The House is on the brink of scheduling a standalone vote on giving President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority without accompanying worker assistance legislation, according to multiple sources familiar with the plan. The House could vote on Trade Promotion Authority as early as this week, the sources said. The House Rules Committee, which sets parameters for the consideration of legislation, meets late Tuesday afternoon. A final decision has not been made,… View Article

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